Research area for Fundamental Genetic Engineering and Molecular Breeding Technologies
| Staff(s) | Assistant Professor. Satoko NONAKA |
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| Field of research | Horticultural Sciences, Plant Molecular Breeding, Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation, Environmental Stress Response |
| Research topics | – Studies on regulation manner of starch metabolism and its physiological function in tomato fruit – Studies on the cross-talk mechanism between metabolic regulation of carbon and amino acid and abiotic stress – Development of new nutrition in melon and tomato – Establishment of transformation techniques in horticultural crops, – Development of new Agrobacterium with higher transformation frequency |
| Keywords | Tomato, Melon, Super-Agrobacterium, Plant Tissue Culture, Transformation techniques, Starch, Sugar metabolism, Abiotic stress response |
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| TEL | 029-853-7726 |
| nonaka.satoko.gt@u.tsukuba.ac.jp |
Research introduction
Nonaka’s group
- Tomato and melon are one of the most important vegetable crops in the world. These two crops contain huge variety of species in the world. For effective use of the attractive materials, functional genomics tools are required. Therefore, for the last decade, many studies have been addressed the tools, such as EST collections, and omics database, genetic linkage maps, DNA markers, BAC libraries, a mutation library, and transformation techniques. Although the transformation is a key technique for functional genomics research, the frequency is not enough for the practical use. Therefore, the research efforts have been undertaken in order to establish the efficient transformation protocol in melon. In our laboratory,
